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v1
O Yahweh, do not rebuke me in your anger or chastise me in your wrath.
v2
For your arrows have sunk into me, and your hand has pressed down on me.
v3
There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation. There is no health in my bones because of my sin.
v4
For my iniquities have passed over my head; like a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
v5
My wounds start to stink; they rot because of my foolishness.
v6
I am bowed down; I am bent over greatly. All the day I go about mourning.
v7
For my loins are full of burning, and there is no soundness in my flesh.
v8
I am faint and crushed greatly; I groan because of the roaring of my heart.
v9
O Lord, all my longing is before you, and my sighing is not hidden from you.
v10
My heart throbs violently, my strength leaves me; and the light of my eyes, that also is not with me.
v11
My friends and companions stand aloof from my affliction, and my relatives stand afar off.
v12
Those who seek my life lay snares as well, and those intent on my harm speak threats. They also plot deceit all day.
v13
But as for me, like the deaf I cannot hear, and I am like the mute who cannot open his mouth.
v14
And so I am like a man who hears not, and in whose mouth there are no retorts.
v15
Rather for you I wait, O Yahweh. You will answer, O Lord my God.
v16
For I said, “Help, lest they rejoice over me, lest they boast against me when my foot slips.”
v17
For I am ready to stumble, and my pain is before me continually.
v18
For my iniquity I confess; I am anxious because of my sin.
v19
And my enemies without cause ^[Or “vigorous”] are numerous, and those who hate me wrongfully ^[Or “those who hate me with falsehood”] are many.
v20
And those who repay evil in return for good accuse me in return for my pursuing good.
v21
Do not forsake me, O Yahweh. O my God, do not be far from me.
v22
Hurry to help me, O Lord, my salvation.